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Re: [AQ_NFS] Is this true?

Thanks, Bill & Miles, for your answers. I, too, would rather wait for Gaylon & team, AND I have no intention of switching programs. I was simply surprised that

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Thanks, Bill & Miles, for your answers. I, too, would rather wait for Gaylon & team, AND I have no intention of switching programs. I was simply surprised that any one program would be singled out that way.
-Sally

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>From: Bill Buchanan <genealogistbuchanan@...>
>Sent: Apr 9, 2013 9:44 AM
>To: AQ_NFS@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [AQ_NFS] Is this true?
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>Familysearch is starting to give programming access to Family Tree. There
>are three new programs that are certified to use Family Tree rather than
>new.familysearch.org. I believe they were announced at RootsTech. (These
>are marked by a checkmark/tick in the official list at
>https://familysearch.org/products) The only one of the three that is a
>database manager is a special pilot version of RootsMagic.
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>I expect that there will be FT versions of other nFS-certified programs
>released soon, including AQ. We just need to be patient. I would rather
>have to wait a few months for Gaylon's team to do a good job than to have
>them rush a half-finished product to market. FT is a moving target. It
>keeps changing. If you check the video on the familysearch.org website, you
>will see that several changes are due to happen very soon.
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>Bill Buchanan
>website: http://billbuchanan.byethost17.com
>blog: http://billbuchanan.blogspot.com
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>On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Sally <fbsb@...> wrote:
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>> Today Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter has an article claiming that
>> "RootsMagic is the ONLY software certified to share with FamilySearch
>> Family Tree." Is this true? Has FamilySearch actually cut ties with
>> Ancestral Quest?
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thomas_nevin_huber

Considering that the RootsMagic product certified is a pilot version, and not the production version, I would say that Gaylon and crew are working on their

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Considering that the RootsMagic product certified is a "pilot"
version, and not the production version, I would say that Gaylon and
crew are working on their own "pilot" versions, getting them ready for
prime time production versions.

I would prefer to wait for the production version, rather than trust a
pilot version not to corrupt my files on my local computer. I'm not
saying that RootsMagic product would do that, but I would rather not
take a chance. My years of "testing" in the computer industry are
behind me.

Tom

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:21:24 -0400 (GMT-04:00), you wrote:

>Today Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter has an article claiming that "RootsMagic is the ONLY software certified to share with FamilySearch Family Tree." Is this true? Has FamilySearch actually cut ties with Ancestral Quest?

Gaylon Findlay

Sally and others. First, thanks to those who have responded on this. Second, let me make sure that all users of AQ understand what is happening. Here s a

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Sally and others.

First, thanks to those who have responded on this.

Second, let me make sure that all users of AQ understand what is happening.

Here's a little history. Back in 2008, AQ became the first desktop genealogy software to be certified to work with New.FamilySearch. At the time, there wasn't another means of working with FamilySearch databases, so AQ was actually the ONLY desktop family tree software that could work with FamilySearch data for about 8 months, before RootsMagic joined us.

The current situation is a bit different. We are in a transition period, where the older "NFS" and the newer "Family Tree" can both be used to work with FamilySearch databases. We are on target for transitioning AQ from working with nFS to working with FT. No ties have been cut between FamilySearch and AQ. While RootsMagic apparently completed the transition first, you can still access the FamilySearch databases through AQ, as we complete the transition.

For those of you who are using AQ's ability to select the best version of birth/christening/death/burial for Family Tree, the longer AQ maintains the connection with nFS, the more time you will have to perform this work. You do not have the ability with any other software to see all three of these databases (your personal file, the nFS data and the Family Tree data) at the same time, as you perform this task.

Today Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter has an article claiming that "RootsMagic is the ONLY software certified to share with FamilySearch Family Tree." Is this true? Has FamilySearch actually cut ties with Ancestral Quest?

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